The Sun. — London, England, 1810-10-03 00:00:00

BRITISH FIRE OFFICE. THE BRITISH FIRE-OFFICE, in the Strand, and lornhill, London, and by Agents in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, and'other Towns, grant Insur ances against FIRE. Premiums for 'lnsurance renewable at Michaelmas must be paid within Fifteen Days therefrom. The Directors or the Br.tish Fire-Office earnestly request the attention of the Public to the uniform and ecniable Mode with which at all times they have contF.Cted their Bu siness' without regarding the impolitic fantasies lately intro slimed, the pretended Advantages set forth, or the gested Plans, equally baneful to the Insurer and Insured, Engii.es of the best Construction, and Firemen of Activity are provided to attend at Fires. Annual Premiums- Common Insurance, ts. per Cent Hazardous, 3s.—Double Hazardous, Ss.' •Insurance of greater Hazard 'acid large Sums by Sre,:ial -Agreement. • . _ Policies (Gratis) as heretofore, for Sums of ;001. and k..p. wards. • - t Merchandize and Ships insured in the West.lndia :‘rid London Docks ; and also at the different Ports in the Lin!eri Kingdom. Insurance on Farming Stock, at as. 6d. per Cent. speciry log the Sums to be insured on the different sort , . of Cr ain or ti. Rd, tier Cent. only on the whole Stock of an . . one Farm, with Salvage Cause. ROBERT SK ELTON, Sec. MAILS. Asa& iv so Leeward island. s Dublin, 1 Waterford. ,l)ua—► Cadiz, i Lisbon, Lisbon, a. Watertorti. PRI( F. 01 . STOCKS THIS DAY A I TWSLVI. O'CLOCK. ,• Consols - 6s I omnium - - 7l t 6 SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE. TWO O'CLOCK, I'. M. We stop the Press to say that the report of Lucas BUONAPARTE having been taken prisoner in the Me- diterranean is not true. He went immediately, we understand, on his departure from Italy to Sardinia, where he surreodercd himself to the proteEtion of the British Minister at that place, by whom he was sent forward to Gibraltar, where he had arrived. Mr. ADAIR had just. reached the same place, on his return from Constantinuple.—We derive this inlet- ligence from such a quarter as induces us with confi dence to rely on it. NAVAL NEWS. I , From the LONDON GAZETTE, 011. 2, aut. Admiralty-Office, Oct. 2, 1810. Copy of a Letter from Captain Dashwood, of his Majesty's ship the' Pyramus, addressed to Vice Admiral Sir Carnes Saumarez, .nd of which a copy has been transmitted to John Wilson Crofter, Esq. SIR, •-•- • • • I beg to acquaint you, that the Danish three masted schooner privateer Norsk Mod, of six guns, four swivels, twenty-eight men, and of one hundred tons burt hen, commanded by Mathias Bergh, was captured at two o'clock this morning by the Py ramus. This privateer had left Arundle only six hours, and sailed for the express purpose of annoying the very large convoy that sailed yesterday from Got tenburgh for England. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) C. DASHWOOD, Captain. PLYMOUTH, OCT. I.—Arrived the Dolphin store ship from Cadiz, Lisbon, and Corunna, and has brought from the latter place a Swiss regiment, to gether with their officers, who have been in the French service upwards of two years, during which time they have not received any pay, and at times but scantily supplied with provisions ; these priva tions, and other distressing events, was the cause of their abandoning the French standard, and in con sequence fled to the British army. .The Dolphin brings intelligence that an incendiary had set on fire some houses that contained arms at Corunna, which burnt with such fury, as to threaten the desiration of the whole town ; but the timely aid of the British seamen, belonging to two men of war lying there, prevented the devouring element fro►n doing that injury which at first was expelled. The centinel on duty at the place where the fire hap pened has been tried by a Court Martial, and sen tenced to be shot, which was to have been immedi ately carried into execution. Ti.e incendiary, we are sorry to state, made his escape, and when the Dolphin left Corunna, had not been apprehended. Arrived his Majesty's ship Latona from Cadiz, with dispatches from Admiral Sir RICHARD KEATS ; she brings an account of the lose, on or about the 20th August, of his Majesty's ship Lively, of 38 guns, Captain M‘Krs:LEY, near Malta, to which place she was carrying Admiral BOYLES, and Gene ral COLBURN; and we are happy in being able to state, that those Officers, together with the Officers arid Crew of the Lively, were all saved. His Majesty's ship Minerva, of 36 guns, has de tained and sent in here ,the American ship Baltic, Captain RYDER, from Bourdeaux, with a cargo, bound to Lisbon. Arrived his Majesty's ship Sceptre, of 74 guns, from the Eastward, and is gone into harbour, and not the Hero, 74, as stated yesterday. We mentioned, on Saturday, that intelligence had been received here of a French Squadron being at sea, which afterwards proved to be the case. The enemy, consisting of two sail of the fine, and five frigates, the latter with troops, escaped from Cher- bourg, with an intention, it is reported, of going to the relief of the Mauritius, but those ships have been again obliged to take shelter in the port from whence they escaped. Arrived, the Britannia, CLARK ; Adventure, SNOWDEN ; and Salacia, ADAMSON, from Sunder. land; Friends, BEST; • Blessing, STEWARD; and Hera, RAY, frotn \Vales; the Wellington, Buoys, from Quebec, with potash and staves, bound to London, put in here by contrary winds. Came down the harbour and anchored in the Sound his Majesty's ships Orestes and Hawk.' Sailed his Majesty's ship Harpy on a crutze. Sailed his Majesty's ship Lithret on a cruize. His Majesty's ship Martin takes convoy at this port to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, and it is expe&ed will sail in the course of a few► days. Arrived a transport (No. 353), from the Down's; the Hope, ORCHARD ; and a small ketch, name un• known, also from the Downs, bound to St. John's, Newfoundland. DC ,L, Ocr. 2.—Ariived and sa'lied for the River the William Pitt, East Indianian. Arrived the Defence gun -brig from a cruize off the Texel. Sailed the Osprey sloop of war. • We have strong reason to believe that a battle has taken place in Portugal, and that it terminated in favour of the British. An Officer belonging to an American sloop of war, which arrived, yesterday at Spitheatt , frotn Havre, went on board the Royal William, and stated, that an account of MAssENA's having been defeated reached Paris on the 28th ult.—The news of the battle was, we understand, generally circulated and confidently believed at Havre. The following information was this morningposted up at LLOYD'S :-•—• Various reports are in circulation this morning respecting the taking of LuctEN BIJONAPARTE, in the Mediterranean, we believe the only account in town has been received by this house from Bristol, of which the following is a verbatim copy : " BRISTOL, OCT. .—.Arrived the Hercules,. SKINNER, from Malta has made her passage out and home again in ten weeks. The Hercules brings a report that LUCItII BUONAPARTU is taken in the Mediterranean.- The accounts from the North of Europe are of a ♦ery interesting nature : the intention-of BUONA-• PARTE to get into his possession, by some means or other, all the Ports in the Baltic, is so notorious, that it has excited great uneasiness in the Courts of Petett,burgh and Copenhagen; and will in all pro bability effea a change in the politics of those Courts. That the latter of those Courts has refus- ed to comply with BUONAPARTE'S demand of occu pying Zealand with 30,000 men, there is no doubt; but whether it will have the firmness, or whether it Las the power to resist that demand by force is a question which we have not the means of answer ing. The military force of Denmark has been esti mated at 40,000 men; this estimate is, we are convinced, much higher than the aCttial force, but even admitting it to be correEt, it would be quite insufficient to protect the Continental Dominions of Denmark. We trust, however, that the Rus sian Government will feel the necessity of making some efforts to preserve the North of Europe from falling entirely under the vassalage of BUONAPARTE ' after what we have seen, however, we dto not like to indulge any very sanguine speculations. New• York Papers to the 2,d ult. arrived yesterday, but they are destitute of any interesting intelligence. It would appear from an article in the Aew York Gazette. of the tbt, that the arrival of LUCIEN BUONAPARTE was expeEted in America. In contradiction to the Spanish accounts, the French Papers state, that the siege of Tortosa is drawing to a close, and that the rebels of Galicia are disposed to submit to King JOSEPH. BUONAPARTE having seized the States of the So vereign Pontiff . of Rome, presents us now with the first as of his Government , there—the pay ment of the national debt by the sale of the public domains. Mr. SADLBR is to ascend again very shortly iu his balloon, before the Royal Family at Windsor. THE LYCEUM.—The translated play of The Stranger was represented last night at this Theatre. ,RAYMOND was very respectable in the part of The Stranger, and Mrs. POWELL very affeding in that of Mrs. Haller. In the last scene a Lady in the stage-box was so much affected, that she fainted.— Tike play was altogether well received. LOWE'S PATENT lIIIITTSti SHIRTING CLOTH. THE Texture being comps iced partly of lingli , l) h lax renders it equal in durability and appearance to Linen. did about Halt the Price. Sold Wholesale arid by the Piece, No. i 54, Cheapside, and 1-larding. Howell, and Co Pall-Mall. CZ' The Sale of this British Fabric being now in the third year. Purchasers in general are most respectfully informed, that it any has proved inferior, either in diirability or wash. ing, to the best Ins!' Linen, satisfactory compensation will be 'nide. 11 E SUN. SoLII4 QUIS DtCliti VALIUM AUDEAT? LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1810. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZF.MONFY, To the gun-brig Cracker, for the recapture of the Hawke and Atlas collier brigs. Recalls at No. 22., Arundel-street. To the sloop Aeteon, for the recapture of the Weymouth and French privateer Lizard (in compahy with the Plover), at 22, A rlinde: -street . To the goo-vessel Forward, for the dcrention of the Prus sian druits tieliona and Drie Gesusters, at N 6. 22, Arundel street. To the sloop Plover, for the capture of the Aurore, on her arrival in port ; and recalls at No. 12, Clement's Inn. TO the Albion, for the re-capture of the Swallow, at No. 3, Brick-court, Temple. To the East India Company's ship Lord Leith, for the re-, capture of the Admiral Rainier, on the sth inst. at No. zB, New Broad-street. Recalls at the King and Queen, Dock head, for three years to come. To the' East India Company's ship Dover Castle, for the recapture of the Admiral Rainier, on the sth inst. at No. 4, Austin-friars; and the rccal Is there every T ue yand Thurs day, for three years. A circular letter, of which the following is a copy, was yesterday addressed by Mr. MoxoN to the different creditors of Mr. GOLDS M ID'S house:-- "Sin—Messrs. Bainbridge, Kensington, and Barnet, being appointed by the Chancellor or the Exchequer to inspeci our alnirs, we beg leave to refer you to them for every in formation." After the above Gentlemen had examined the statement produced by Mr. MoxoN, they had a meeting with the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and, about three o'clock, it was announced on 'Change, that Goveriumnt had determined to sop port the house of Messrs. GOLDSMID and Co. An official letter, to this effect, we understand, was transmitted to Mr. Moxos by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. When this result was known on the Stock Ex change, the funds, instead of vetting better, 1.)•, came worse. Consols, which were 659, and Oinniuin at 7, left if at 651 for money, and Oinnium at 71. The nature of the support which is. to be given by Government is not yet known, but it is supposed th.it the Bank will make advances on the Osmium which the parties hold, and thus keep it out of the market at the present crisis. It is understood that if the Oinnium rise to 5 per cent, discount, the house of Messrs. GoLosmio and Co. possess p:Tuniary means fir beyond any demand that can be made upon them. The following are copies of private letters : " CADIZ, SEPT. B.—We have just received the unfavourable account of the fall of Almeida, in con sequence of the blowing up of its magazine. No military event of importance has taken plai.e since the return of General LACY. I conversed with him and some of his officers on their arrival. They spoke in the highest terms of the aid they received from Captain COCKEURNE, who commanded the flotilla, and who marched on with the line, and was highly pleased at the enthusiasm which they dis played. General LACY will soon undertake another expedition with a superior force, when something more decisive may be expected." ANOTHER LETTEIt-SAME DATE. " I find by the orders of the day just issued by General GRAHAM, that the brigade of the 94th, in the Isla, and a company of the 95th, which is here, are to embark to-morrow for Portugal, to reinforce Lord:WELLINGToN. I understand that the Duke of AttEILBERG, who commanded against General LACY, was seriously wounded in the action that took place." We have received an Ayamonte Gazette, con taining an account of some successful operations by the army under General CAPONS, subsequent to the expedition of General LACY, the official details of which we shall give in our next. The Cadiz Mer cantile Diary of the Bth contains a paragraph in the following obscure terms :—" We shall not venture to insert some rumours of high importance, which have this day occupied the attention of the Public, because, as they are not yet sufficiently authen ticated, we might be accused of levity in publishing them." A letter from Dublin, dated Sept, 27; says, " while the mercantile community are engrossed with politics, the fashionable world are employed in canvassing a lately discovered crim. con. Mr. B. a man of large fortune, elegant in manners, and most exemplary in disposition and conduct, when travelling on the Continent about ten years since, met with the daughter of an officer of high rank. She was not handsome, but her person was what is termed showy, and she possessed all the- blandish ments which too often captivate the unwary, while unassuming modest merit is overlooked. " Mr. B. made his proposals, was accepted, and returned to Ireland, his native country, with his .bride, who has always held a most prominent sta tion in the fashionable circles. Mr. B. had been from home, and returning unexpededly, found his Lady in bed, accompanied by her enamorato, a youth of twenty, who leaped out of the window, and reached the porter's-lodge, without any cover ing but his shirt, in safety. The Lady has been con veyed by her husband's brother-in-law, who was an inmate in the house at the time, to Holyl , ead. Mrs. B. is considerably above thirty." Mr. KEMBLB is . recovered enough to resume his managerial dniies at the Theatre. Mr. C. KEM BLE's indisposition is a bilioua atFeotion, to which he is couch subjeet. CORN EXCHINGE, OCT. 3.--This day there are large arrivals of Foreign Wheat, which has the ef fect this week of a redudion of about 6 . 5. and 6s. per quarter ; Barley in short supply, and full as dear; .Malt and White Peas likewise; Old Beans some what lower; there are short supplies of 'Oats, and this ankle is quoted rathei higneri Flour - at late prices. Wheat 66s a Bos a 98s Fine ditto . loos a io4s Rye -46 s a 52. Barley - . . 34s a 48s Malt . . 725 a Nos White Pease . 52s a 5 8 s Grey ditto -48 s a 54S Beans 4. - a Sgs a sss Tick Beans . - 465 a $25 Oats 243 275 a 32: Poland ditto - 345• 38) Potatoeditto . 4fs a—; Rape Seed . 461 a 521 tine Flour - So a 901 Seconds . . Sos a 14s COURTS.:II.IRTUL . GENERAL ORDERS. IS"' llorsc.Guards, Scpt.i or , At a General Court-Martial held at Co''velrit:ro, the 28th May, 1810, and continued by aciP er ments to the 2d of June following, and re 4ss oa r bled on the sth July and subsequent days, ‘ , ll ., C a bell mand of his Majesty,: Adjutant William m l ` r 0 01 Price, of the-4th Regiment of Warwickshire led Militia, was arraigned upon the under-Men° Charges r ; viz. :: p r ice) ist. ", That the said William Mitchel l being Adjutant of the 4th Re g iment of Loca l ior litia of the County of Warwick, and being el de r' ed or ordered by the- Right Honourable din e Grey-de-Ruthyn, Lieutenant-Colonel ConltA a ' a r• of the sad Regiment, to provide the articles, Or, caries direcied to be provided, out of the rituslaal allowed to the, persons enrolled to serve in Vora Regiment of Local Militia ; and the said N"Y! t o Mitchell Price, being entrusted with the m° lll co e4 o e provide such neces s aries, char ge d the Nj m ' ae tt missioned Officers, drummers, and privat e - bile serving in the said Regiment of Local Militia , % !- rOO l on permanent duty at the City of Coventry, front the /,'.).sth day of September to the 23d day of °cl ot' last, both days inclusive, more money than Ihe o at cles, or necessaries so provided by hire, t h n 4 , - William Mitchell P:-ice, actually cost, thes ew l a ar franding the Non-commissioned Officers , ``'.„alts iners, and private men, and putting a cun side l' ltd sum of money into his own pocket, conttatY to t ae duty as an Officer and a Gentleman, and t o great injury of his Majesty's service." 2d. '' That the said William Mitchell being so employed or ordered as 'aforesaid, an d trusted with the monies to provicfereef s~ar"yet;, the said Non-commissioned Officers, druf pul o l end priva•e. men, •of the said 41 1 h iteantw%aa Local Militia of die County of Warvvick,-- 4 , -, a• Right Honourable. LordGrey-de -Ruitiyo, the " --; "„n tenant-Colonel Commandant of the said Beg it tal while on permanent duty ai Coventry, tram tf t n e' aa , 25th day of September to the 23d day al•`" ber last, botlt days inclusive, did provide certato cies not coming within the description of neoe' sarl' ao and altogether unnecessary, which ftc caused tb r . , delivered to the said Non-commissioned Officeot, drummers, and private men, of the said RiSt ` ze t a(' as necessaries, and compelled them to ta pe ' 0 .• same, without having- the -authority of the Col mantling Officer of the said Regiment for so d' a i l ":,t and he the sail William Mitchell in . ice, cb ar ' efs , the said Non-commissioned Officers, druntr, and private men, of the said Regiment, more tonole'si, than the aelual cost of the said unnecessary ar tic j to thereby misapplying the said monies so intru ste ea • him, contrary to his duty as an Officer and ' l , G at 'it tleman, and to the great injury of his ser Upon vice." these Charges the Court came to the fol' lo wing decision • in' The Court having, :n ob e die nce t o his MsJ cs ' commands, revised its late proceedingti, e mined further evidence to such part; of the as under the circumstances appeared not to hav e p7iCe inquired into, and also heard what Adjotant `L -T had to offer in his defence, %va s , after maturer a t beration, of opini o n, th a t th e f is t c h a rge 113 ", - , a l been proved, and therefor e th e C our t f u lly aequ ;-t the prisoner. h With respell to the second charge, no fres, - t it dence having been adduc e d, t o p rove that Ad.l o- er Price compelled the noncommissionedoffi c ;n• drummers, and privates; to take an y unneee s i - re , articles, the Court remained of opi n i o n :Is bel° o / that he was—Nct Guilty, and therefore eequ him also of that charge. ice d The Court could not suffer its pr o ceeding t c i r at without annexing a list o f th e necessar ies prouturr. in Court, as furnished to the 4il t R eg i me nt al ; a Ol wick Local Militia, with the p r ic es paid tor " fe el (as far as evidence was given), and the Coo ° a‘ lai it necessary to state that the wh o l e o f the appeared of, good •quality, and that no charg e " bc r made by Adjutant William Price for carriage or of attendant expences. His Majesty has been pleased, under all tl te tn cumstances of the case, to acquiesce in the of the Court, and the consequent acquittal of the 1) soner. The irregularity which appears to hate beeri d a c° ,7 l ; mined by Lord Grey-de-Ruth''n, Lieutenatil-L(,"ia, nel Commandant of the 4th Warwick Local Niti‘ t. o ( in directing the whole allowance for the Regib le ,. /2 t l laf one guinea per man to be paid into the hands °' Adjutant, Capt. Price, ir a practice highly tat in principle to his Majesty's service - , and c -3-c ,, ; lifted to give rise to that dissatisfaction which aPP,f: v e from the proceedings of the Court-Martial to h ' f;• prevailed in the corps, and in directing 1113 'a -- irregularity should be pointed out to Lord Grer - :J Rut hyn, his Majesty has been p leased to itt his Lordship should be enjoined to future to the express diredions ut the ifiSth GO' ;of cap. 11, sec. 3 t, which pr o vid es f or t h e paym dttt this guinea to the Captain of the Company. The Commander-in-Chief di re c ts t h a t the Cho r44 , ' preferred against Adjutant Willi am Mi t chell higether with the decision of I he C,urt-Martial, 0111, his Majesty's pleasure thereof), shali b e read or head of every Corps, and eoteted in the Regial ers ' '' Orderly books. • By command of The Right Hon. the Coinunnitler-in-Chie f ' fj , (Signed) HARRY CAI.C.I, At:jutAtit• C-; eP4'IA A London actor of eminence, well known fli t 4 5 eccentricities, has been some iin, ) e p er d ue , but 't ec at length discovered that he was in a 1 0° , 6 0, Liverpool, living in a high st) ofjollity. c i jo g however, suddenly indisposed, and a ppreh. o3, .ii, that his end Was approaching ; he ordered, it i 5 t i e five guineas to be distributed among some g tb - 3 r Ladies, who rgsided in. , the same mati sion,_; lo they might Stied over his grave—the 101 l V.' tankard. The new Melo-Drama . , ann,u • inced at • ,f Garden Theatre, said to come trmn the Mr. REYNOLDS. • ,; at aceIMIS. JORDAN is performing with gr e at s t Literpool. She was to p 1 4 .1 fa s t E i g ht tins P ar. ; 4. Bizarre, in The Inconstant. • 77?;